Fine Art Photographer of Place
Fine Art Photographer of People
Based in Pennsylvania
Jane Liechty
I'm a fine-art photographer, working in the traditions of portraiture and documentary. I was born and raised in Sheffield, England; now I live in State College, Pennsylvania. My work has always moved between the two countries—and between two kinds of picture: the ones I find and the ones I make.
I earned my Bachelor of Design in Professional Photography from Penn State in 2024, where I was Student Marshal for the College of Arts and Architecture. I'm a member of the American Society of Media Photographers.
Cambridge, UK
A study of what it means to know a place
Westminster Statues
What we choose to remember and why
London-opoly
A trip around the London Monopoly game board
Small town Pennsylvania
The character of a place
Portraits
Words
Short essays about how other photographers inform my work
A Different Planet
Two children eat ice creams on the cover of Martin Parr’s The Last Resort. Any other photographer would have wiped their faces first. Parr wanted the drips. Parr called himself the antidote to propaganda, and an antidote isn't the same as a kindness. He died in December 2025, a satirist and a national treasure at once. Somewhere in Blackpool in the 1970s, we might have crossed paths.
Strengthened by Words
Dorothea Lange spent her career insisting that words extend the medium of photography, but the lines she filed with “Migrant Mother” weren’t entirely accurate. The woman herself corrected the record in 1978, and her son again in 2002. I've been working out what all of this means for a book of my own and whether it should include any text.
Making a Photobook
Two children eat ice creams on the cover of Martin Parr’s The Last Resort. Any other photographer would have wiped their faces first. Parr wanted the drips. Parr called himself the antidote to propaganda, and an antidote isn't the same as a kindness. He died in December 2025, a satirist and a national treasure at once. Somewhere in Blackpool in the 1970s, we might have crossed paths.